...Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read and praise to give. Ben Jonson, "To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare" "The end of the matter;...

...is a thought expressed not only by himself but also by Ben Jonson (1573?1637), who wrote: (280) Thou art... alive still, while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give. 6. Authors in the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries Having thus exploited Shakespeare (and Jonson)...

...further, to make thee a roome: Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe, And art alive still, while thy Booke doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. 1 D Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to showe,/ To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe,' remarks...

...reminding us that Shakespeare (like his ancient predecessors) will remain "alive still, while [his] Book doth live, and we have wits to read [!], and praise to give." For, as Jonson famously observed, "He was not of an age, but for all time!" 14 Anthony Burgess expresses...

...Spenser, or hid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument without a tomb. And art alive still while thy book doth live, And we have w its to read, and praise to give . . . For if I thought my judgement were of years, I should commit...

...Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, t the book, and sit him down and die. Tint I not mix thee so, my brain excuses, — I mean, with great but disproportion'd Muses; For if...

...bid Beaumont lie A little futthet, to make thee a toom; Thou att a monument without a tomb, And att alive still while thy book doth live, And we have wits to tead, and pmise to give. That 1 not mix thee so, my bmin excuses: l mean with gteat, but disptopottioned,...

...bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And an alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have...thee so, my brain excuses; I mean with great, but disproportioned muses: For, if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with...

...'self-preservation' ahead of adaptation.59 Hamletism and humanism Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read, and praise to give.60 With its talk of tombs and monuments, being and non-being, the question of literary succession...

...them. "Thou art a Moniment without a tomb," Ben Jonson wrote, "And are alive still, while thy booke doth live,/ And we have wits to read, and praise to give" ("To the Memory of ... William Shakespeare"). Milton's Shakespeare needed no "piled stones" or "Star-ypointing...